Excerpts from the Worst of the Year Anthologies.(TUNING UP)

Just to be on the safe side, I decided to consult a dictionary my wife had given me recently as a 25th anniversary present, in which I found this entry for "haply": "By hap, chance, luck, or accident," and this illustrative quotation from the King James Bible: "Lest haply ye be found to fight against God" (Acts, v. 39). Well, the laugh was certainly on me, but the method I had serendipitously discovered-i.e., "looking up" things in dictionaries and other reference books-seems generally useful, and I intend to apply it to other words that have given me trouble over the years, such as "whence," "wherefore," and "wilt." - from Adventures in Semiology, by Dr. René Pommery of the University of Dijon (translated from the French by Howard R. Gulden) The Worst First Draft of 1920 "... and no I said no I won't No." -from the final page of the original manuscript of James Joyce's Ulysses The Worst Anthropology of 1934 July 7, 1934 ... [...] I said that if they could live in a thatched hut then so could I, and the very next day Pulti and Hara thatched one for me and it's very cozy in here now except when it rains.